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We can't exercise this kind of source-based epistemic vigilance with LLMs. For proprietary products like Claude or ChatGPT, the companies that own them haven't disclosed what's in their training data. The sources of the content produced by LLMs are hidden. 10/

Tinkering with @joinpeertube.org batch uploading thanks to its powerful peertube-cli docs.joinpeertube.org/maintain/too... allowing me to upload a dozen videos easily, including video name, description (with OpenStreetMap location as URL) and even tags!

Damn, as an electronics tinkerer this is exciting! I can't count how many USB ports I had to re-solder. It's the 1 physical part in otherwise solid-state devices. We exert great pressure when we insert or remove cables so they wear down. This could increase both tinkerability AND sustainability.🇪🇺👌

In a world of spatial computing, what is the future of information? What is the Future of Text? Of poetry? In my spare time I used #threejs to revisit some of my favorite kinetic typography - video below, and link in the thread to experience it yourself:

"I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games" www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-ga... via HN

Damn, trendy STOA AI corporation showcases the latest feature, basically equivalent to GNU screen (39 years) or tmux (18 years old). Wow. Such innovation. Definitely worth pouring billions, if not trillions, into and fastening climate change. We're doing great as a species! /s

"evolving into a project with more realistic milestones, prioritizing sectors that align closely with current economic conditions and global demand, especially data and technology infrastructure." parametric-architecture.com/saudi-arabia... Right. Who could have guessed. 🤷‍♂️ /s

"an argument against pretending there is no tradeoff. [...] Age-restriction laws are not just about kids and screens. They are reshaping how identity, privacy, and access work on the Internet for everyone." Waydell D. Carvalho for @spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org/age-verifica...

Just gave a walking lecture on software defined radio (SDR), networking and the search for alien communication. It was rather coherent but... it was in my sleep. Worst part : I'd rather attend it😅 Any better recommendations than my dreamy self?

I don't think anybody asked for it, instead most of us ask for genuine sovereignty, no surveillance capitalism extracting then exploring our data, no lock-in and last but not least partners, political or just economical that we can trust, or at least don't showcase adversarial behaviour. 🤔

I recorded an op-ed podcast & wrote a #longread essay on the parallels between PM Carney's Davos speech in maintaining sovereignty from hegemons & how each of us will need to preserve our sovereignty from Big Tech's surveillance capitalism morphing to an AI Big Brother voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...

🤖💀 Terminator? Samantha? (Her) ... no just OpenAI, once again, initially about openness and safety, its raison d'etre, just predating for money. Disgusting yet unsurprising. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

So... the richest man on Earth does 3 things consistently : - make outrageous promises (he never keeps) - take all the subsidies he can get (while claiming to be about competition) and if this wasn't enough - simply ignore the law, yet another example www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anti-consumerist sport brag : when you actually have to buy new equipment because you worn it out. Still, I'll wait next season to buy ice skating boots! (or even new ice skates)

So... I actually believe the feature is useful. The problem isn't really there IMHO but rather the WHOM and the WHY. Who is actually building that? One of the biggest advertising companies. Why are they building? To learn who you are talking to and shape your behavior better. That's the problem.

Software dependencies are often picked based on non-code related criteria, e.g. documentation but also popularity, thus how likely one is to get help when things get challenging. Guess what happens when you "generate" a solution thanks to LLMs? You get a 1 user community so good luck getting help.🤷‍♂️

Underwater VR! Floating free (compared to being docked in water or on dry land) caused more psychological ocean connection and positive emotions. Floaters believed they had drifted 4 meters even though they were stationary (i.e., vection). Santoso and colleagues: vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Prototyped a little VisionOS game based on the previous RealityKit experiment. I plan to juice it (or lose it) and release it on the App Store. Stay tuned! #swiftui #realitykit #visionpro #spatialcomputing

"It turns out that the post Karpathy shared was later reported to be fake—placed by a human to advertise an app. But its claim was on the money. Moltbook has been one big performance. It is AI theater." www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1... Grifters be grifting regardless of the technology.

Ready for the new semester and to let a new generation of students design and develop 'Next Generation User Interfaces'... 😀 #computerscience #CS #HCI #NGUI #VUB wise.vub.ac.be/course/next-...

"TikTok also knows that LIVE is being used for money laundering and other criminal activities." www.afterbabel.com/i/154423872/... damn I'm so naive I've never considered this, I thought it was just silly but innocent "gifts". They've know for more than half a decade already.

Web designers : please, I beg you, do NOT hide the scrollbar if you are not 100% sure it works perfectly on ALL browsers on all platforms! It's really frustrating not to know how long a page is or where we are relative to the end. Please stop.

At some point you have to realize your blind spot : corporate media did shape our perception of the World. The decentralization of Internet through gave us collectively the opportunity to challenge that, not "just" be fast but also welcome multitudes. Relying on 1 for-profit platform is backward.

@mixcloud.bsky.social any keyboard shortcuts for the embed player? I'm thinking when I'm on www.worldwidefm.net/episode/gill... or www.mixcloud.com/worldwidefm/... I'd expect : - space play/pause - left/right to seek 5s backward/forward - shift + left/right prev/next track - shift + up/down volume

Few things bring me as much joy as combining my own commands to ever so slightly improve my daily life : fabien@debian2080ti:~/Music$ scp "$(mr opus)" phone:/data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/music/ ..namely find the Most Recent (hence mr) .opus file, send it to my phone to listen to later.

We think of AI as a modern tool relying on up to date datasets, at most a couple of years outdated, yet when actual experts verify it is closer to decades old : "ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s." phys.org/news/2026-02...

"LLMs flatten multiple levels of context into text similarity. They see “tokens,” not hierarchies and intentions. LLMs don’t reason through context, they only reference it."

"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" Eric Schmidt - Google CEO in 2009 193 files for Eric Schmidt according to www.wired.com/story/epstei... 314 files for Larry Page 294 files for Sergey Brin Interesting rhetoric. Is it always the people you suspect the most?

I'll subscribe back to @uploadvr.com if the position is clear, coherent and if @ianhamilton.net is treated properly. I understand it might not be the "strategy" of the publication, and if so I'll get my information on VR elsewhere. If AI is forced upon contributors and readers then count me out.

Every minute adaptation of your workflow to better support LLMs is the confirmation that truly those tools are NOT intelligent. PS: yes, I know, it's a joke. I get it.

My professional feedback on "European Open Digital Ecosystems" by the @ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... TL;DR: start by relying on open digital ecosystems yourself. Show the way rather than make grand claims about digital sovereignty. Actually use your own champions.

FWIW if you are experiencing a @Signal.org outage status.signal.org

While China does solar panels and nuclear, basically leaving behind the US as a petrocracy. Resource curse is a thing.

@toji.dev did you ask Valve for a Dev Kit to support WebXR?

Hard Fun by Seymour Papert dailypapert.com/hard-fun/

Gifts and goodies from @fosdem.org

There is no Claude, just other people's code Michiel Leenaars @fosdem.org

How many devices can a RPiZero or RPi3 handle over WiFi? It's just to serve static pages so I bet the WuFi hardware itself is the bottleneck here, no CPU or IO. Any approximation on how such an AP could handle?

So it begins, @nlnetlabs.bsky.social at @fosdem.org

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Inside a Quest 2 : motherboard, cameras, BT module, WiFi module, fan with heat sink, speakers, battery etc i.e a typical mobile computer with a different form factor.

"Writing is like squirting dish soap on an idea: it makes the holes obvious." open.substack.com/pub/experime... ... well no, prototyping does though! Writing makes the holes obvious to anybody expert enough to evaluate the idea (which is hard) whereas genuine prototyping let ANYBODY actually try.

Text is king www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king with a hierarchy of needs topped by "watching short videos where dudes get nailed in the 'nads" or "The unspoken assumption is that most humans, other than a few rare intellectuals, have a hierarchy of needs that looks like this:"

How come I learn only now that Google infamous TPU was made in partnership with Broadcom? www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/g... I was somehow convinced it was an internal Google project. Anyway, live & learn.

lol wut?! "The bigger problem is demand" spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob... bro, I'm not MBA but if the problem is demand for a non working "product" ... then I don't know what even is NOT a problem. from @spectrum.ieee.org

Better VR equipment? How about a more flexible self instead? news.ki.se/how-brain-wa... "how the brain solves the challenge of integrating signals from the body to create a coherent sense of self [which] can contribute to the development of [...] more realistic virtual reality experiences."

In case you are not, like me, a geographer that's where Minneapolis is. So... I'm also not an expert in immigration, or customs, but that does not strike me, in the middle of the country with no border nor a big international airline hub, as a strategical location. But what do I know.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.